KINDER MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM
Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) has been in existence since 1971, and is one of seven mountain rescue teams that operate within the Peak District National Park, as part of the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO).
Our 50 members operate on an purely voluntary basis and are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist members of the public on the hill or in urban search and rescue situations.
We are almost exclusively funded by public donations, and all proceeds from fund raising go towards equipment and resources used on our call outs.
Half an hour after returning home from the previous callout, the PDMRO duty controller received a call from three people who had planned to camp in the Woolpacks. One of them had been taken ill, so they decided to make their way back down to Edale as quickly as possible. The controller was able to...
A group of five walkers had set off from Edale to complete a walk around the southern edges of Kinder Scout. The weather was poor and the ground on the southern edges is very muddy and heavy at the moment. As they were walking through the groughs, one of the group started to get cramp...
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